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Tamayura More Aggressive: Waiting for Tides and Setting Sail

I don’t know what the future holds. I’m sure there’ll be
times when I worry, lose my way, and come to a standstill. But if I don’t set
sail, my ship won’t ever move. So I’ll leave port a little early and set sail
for the sea! – Mitani Kanae; Tamayura: More Aggressive ep10

Tamayura is a series that isn’t exactly everyone’s
cup of tea. It’s a lighthearted series about life with fluffy yet loveable
characters. Anyway, I’m here to go about another motivational post (and yeah,
you can go say ohgod not another lame motivational post by czai) based
on the thoughts of Mitani Kanae during the 10th episode of Tamayura: More
Aggressive.

This episode showed the oh-so typical side of unconfident
high school students – the questioning of the future. In fact this questioning
of the future is always so typical to all unconfident people. Now let me talk
about the development in Kanae throughout the episode(:

Acquiring the ticket to life.

In the beginning of their visit to Maon’s place, Kanae asked
herself, “I wonder if my ticket has a destination on it.” This basically
shows her doubt, fear and uncertainty for the future. Of course no one knows
what the future holds but these things run through the head of someone who
lacks the confidence in themselves or someone who doesn’t have any idea of his
goal in life is.

In one of the few movies I’ve seen, I clearly remember the
words, “You wouldn’t know how far you can go unless you run.” I find it
beautiful because it’s something that gives a push to people who’re scared of
trying out things and people who’re not confident of their
skills/abilities/talents. I think that in order to see the potential roads of
one’s life, he must spend some quality time in discovering himself through
trying out various things that will allow him to see what he can and would like
to do. Through this, one will be able to set his life’s destination thus
lessening, if not fully taking off, his fear and uncertainty of the future.

A bright light begins from a tiny
spark.

“What sparked your love for photography?” This was
Kanae’s question to Fuu. I think that at this point Kanae was trying to find a
way for her to know what she should do once she graduates. This is when she
sees that every one of them have this point in their lives where they found
their current interest.

Looking at what had gone in my life, in my personal point of
view, I’ve also experienced this spark in my life and it was over a year
ago – when I was tasked to hold a responsibility for my college major’s organization.
At that point in my life is when I realized that graphics and arts is something
I truly love despite my lack of skill. I think that in life there would really
come a time when we’d be desperate for answers and you see; through that search
you will not exactly find the answers to your questions through other people.
Instead, your head will be filled with realizations and eventually find the
answers you seek in yourself after going through a lot of things – success,
failures, talking with other people and such.

“It will without a doubt. Nobody knows when it’ll come
but it will. I suppose Maon’s waiting for her next tide right now. It looks
like she can’t decide what she wants to do most. But I’m sure she’ll set sail
again. That’s how it goes.”

This part of the episode is more like Kanae’s enlightenment
on things. Those are simple words. Really. But those simple words allowed her
to fully understand things and actually look at her own life in order to see
her destination. Those simple words were her assurance that she’ll see things
clearly soon. In a lot of times, we would want someone to encourage us or to
push us to do things. We would always want to hear those praises and of course
those words of assurance. By knowing that there’s surely something for us
waiting, we get encouraged to live life to its fullest.

Now to end this lengthy post as what ch5 of Judge
said, “There’s no such thing as a person who’s better off not existing.”
Each of us have our very own purpose and destination in this world and by engaging
ourselves on various things and not putting ourselves down can we truly find
this purpose that we all seek – the tide will surely come and once it does, we
must be ready to set sail for our journey.